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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chairman say about the Castle's phone system?
(a) That it's the most reliable part of the Castle bureaucracy.
(b) That it's a joke.
(c) That it's never working.
(d) That it's antiquated but effective.

2. How does the teacher characterize the chairman in the conversation?
(a) Kind, helpful, and generous.
(b) Bumbling and incompetent.
(c) Empty-headed and ignorant.
(d) Mean, bullying, and power-hungry.

3. Who does K. find in Klamm's sleigh in the courtyard?
(a) A valet.
(b) Klamm's new mistress.
(c) A coachman.
(d) Klamm's brother.

4. What does K. tell Frieda's mother he wants to see Klamm for?
(a) K. wants to make sure Klamm has no hard feelings about K. marrying Frieda.
(b) K. wants Klamm's permission to go to the Castle.
(c) K. wants to challenge Klamm to a duel over Frieda's affections.
(d) K. wants to know when the Count will come see him.

5. How likely does Frieda's mother say it is for K. to see Klamm?
(a) Somewhat unlikely.
(b) Certain.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Very likely.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the teacher know about K.'s conversation with the chairman?

2. What do the assistants do when K. makes them leave?

3. From whom does K. receive a letter?

4. Who does Frieda's mother say an official will talk to?

5. What does K. want to do about his assistants?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when K. first wakes up the morning after meeting Frieda?

2. What message does K. send through Barnabas to Klamm?

3. To what does the landlady attribute the profitability of the inn?

4. What does K. ask Frieda about when he first meets her?

5. How does K. feel at the end of Chapter VIII?

6. What does the coachman tell K. about Klamm's arrival at the coach?

7. What does K. do to get fuel for a fire?

8. What impression does Frieda make when K. first meets her?

9. What do Artur and Jeremias know about land surveying?

10. How does the chairman characterize the Castle's bureaucracy?

(see the answer keys)

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